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Europe’s democratic resilience requires introspection, clear-sightedness and reimagination

The European Democracy Shield (EUDS) is being prepared to bolster the continent’s democratic resilience. If it isn’t to become one of innumerable democracy initiatives, EU institutions need to be clear-sighted about the causes and stakes of our present moment.


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Imaginaries on Sustainability Transformation – Report outlines three positive futures

Imagining futures where society has successfully undergone a sustainability transformation helps us envision a world in which today’s major negative trends have been brought under control. But what kind of positive futures have been proposed in recent years? At the request of the Finnish Expert Panel for Sustainable Development, Demos Helsinki conducted a literature review and drafted three preliminary visions of such futures.


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The anticipatory policy cycle: not just preparing for the future, but influencing it

Governments that invest in foresight-driven policymaking are better positioned to shape the conditions that they operate in. This is how to build policies that both anticipate and influence the future.


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Webinar: Wise Societies — A call for Wisdom in the post-pandemic world

We have gathered the data, we need to cultivate the wisdom. Can societies be wise? Experiences of the pandemic — both why it happened and how it was handled — ring alarm bells for many of us.  Judging by today’s standards, societies are far from wise. Individuals hold this trait…


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Webinar: Novel ways to problem-solve

What are the desired characteristics of a fit-for-purpose 21st-century government?


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Webinar: Governing through transformation – How Finland is reforming its governance in the times of crisis

As a part of the OECD’s Government After Shock event series, Demos Helsinki will arrange a webinar that brings together high-level government officials and decision-makers to deliberate, ideate and challenge a pivotal question: In the light of the COVID-19 crisis, what should governments do differently and how?


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At the Conceptual Crossroads of Politics and Technology: An Exploration Into EU Digital Policy

While existing scholarship has examined discursive strategies and technocratic
tendencies in EU digital policy in isolation, this article distinctively analyses their paradoxical interplay.


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Applying ethics in a complex piloting context

With the increasing culture of applying piloting as part of technology innovation, the need for understanding its societal implications is becoming more crucial. With the aim of understanding better the power relations, tensions and agencies pivotal to negotiating and embedding ethics across processes, we consider utilizing a framework of “design logics” to the data.


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Revitalising and protecting European democracies

The European Democracy Shield is a timely and commendable initiative aimed at addressing the EU’s growing democratic challenges. However, it would benefit from a more human-centered approach focusing on citizen participation, civil society engagement, and more nuanced policies on digital regulation.


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